XCOM Enemy Unknown Compression Toolkit

fairchild Oct 10, 2012

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    Yet again a compression toolkit, this time for XCOM Enemy Unknown...

    To use this toolkit you must first extract the savegame from within the xbox 360 container (CON), then use this toolkit on the extracted file. If you try to use this on the CON file itself it will give you a warning.

    This is not a click 'n play tool, you need to use it from the Command Prompt or any other methods that handles this tool.

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    			   XCOM Enemy Unknown Compression Toolkit by fairchild
      ======================================================= version 0.1.5 ===
    
      Usage: xcom.exe [options] <input> <output>
    
      Options:
    			    -d	  - Decompress.
    			    -c	  - Compress.
    
    
    Release notes:
    
      Yet again a compression toolkit, this time for XCOM Enemy Unknown...
    
      To use this toolkit you must first extract the savegame from within the
      xbox 360 container (CON), then use this toolkit on the extracted file.
      If you try to use this on the CON file itself it will give you a warning.
    
      This is not a click 'n play tool, you need to use it from the Command Prompt
      or any other methods that handles this tool.
     
      Update:
       * v0.1.5 - Added support for PC savegames.
    
    
      WARNING!
     
      Always backup your saves, this tool may corrupt remove your savegames.
     
    
    
      Decompress
      ==========
    
      Now to decompress a savegame you run the application by entering the following:
    
      * <PTEF> = the path to the extracted files, ex: c:\test
    
      <PTEF>\xcom.exe -d <PTEF>\<my savegame filename> <PTEF>\save.decompressed
    
      Example: c:\test\xcom.exe -d c:\test\save1 c:\test\save1.decompressed
    
      The toolkit will process the savegame and decompress it's compressed data block
      to the file names "save1.decompressed".
    
      Open "save1.decompressed" in your favorite hex editor :-)
    
    
      Compress
      ========
    
      To compress and inject the uncompressed blocks back into your savegame use the
      following command:
    
      NOTE: !! make a copy of your orginal savegame !!
    
      * <PTEF> = the path to the extracted files, ex: c:\test
    
      <PTEF>\xcom.exe -c <PTEF>\save1.decompressed <PTEF>\save1
    
      Example: c:\test\xcom.exe -c c:\test\save1.decompressed c:\test\save1
    
      This will take the decompressed block, named "save1.decompressed" and
      compress them, rebuild the package to a file named "save1.rebuilt".
    
      The file to inject back into your CON file is the file ending with ".rebuilt" !
    
    
      NOTE:
    
    	 Always make backup of your savegames!!
    
      Have fun :-)
    
     

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    great share. will help those that want to mod their own saves.
     
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    A nice tut about how to find specific values would be nice please.
     
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    What does this compression tool enable you to do?
    I'd love to mod this game so i could have more alloys.
    I have used hex edit in the past on games like assassins creed to edit money, but i dont seem to find any matching values when i try it with xcom.
    Any advice would be appreciated.
     
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    Fairchild, do you mind looking at the attached file?

    It is a saved game file from the PC version, the file header structure of an XBOX save and this PC save seem very similar except for the first few bytes. The PC save will not decompress in your xcom enemy unknown compression toolkit v0.1.0b :(

    I know this is an xbox forum, but there are desperate PC gamers out there too! any chance you could amend your tool to handle PC saves too or inform me what to change to convert this into an XBOX save?
     

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    Hi, updated my application with PC savegame support, do note that this is untested as i don't have the PC version of the game so make backups :)
     
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    FAIRCHILD, have my babies - it works!

    Edit: it decompresses fine but the recompressed file has a much smaller file size, thanks for trying!
     
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    Nice to see you posting here Fairchild you do some good work work that alot of people use
     
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    I am sure I am doing somthing wrong.. Extracting the save either by "360Rev " or "Horizon" it always comes up in CMD prompt "error the compressed LZO input is wrong or incomplete (-4)" also windows error and advises that Xcom.exe has stopped working..

    Any ideas??

    Just want to edit alloy's, weapon fragments, Elerium etc :(

    Any help would be nice... thanks in advance :)
     
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    I try to decompress the extracted file but I keep getting the big red "XBOX360 Container detected." warning. What am I doing wrong here?
     
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    im having this problem as well, can anybody help?
     
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    Hi Fairchild,

    I can only find your code on two websites, but I think I need to 1.6 version to re-compress PC code. Unfortunately due to a bug I can't seem to register on the other site! Could you please upload the 1.6 version here (or let me know where I can download it please?)

    Thanks
     
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    If you're getting the container error it's because you're attempting to do the whole save..

    Go back into horizon, double click your save, go to the "Contents" tab and extract the save1 located therein. That is the file that you want to decompress/recompress using Fairchild's toolkit.

    Thanks Fairchild.
     
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    As far as recompression goes, I'm getting some errors.. Namely, it compresses it back to about 70kb whereas the original was 104kb.. Every attempt to inject comes up with an error for invalid STFS file and forced injections just corrupt the file

    Trying to just decompress and recompress the file without actually modifying it bring the same results.

    Any ideas?\

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    Never mind, I'm being foolish- didn't choose replace in horizon and was trying to inject it instead. Great work Fairchild!
     
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    Downloaded and extracted but everytime I try and open the tool it opens for less than a second and then closes. Any ideas?
     
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    Fairchild, I was trying to mod my castleminer z file with hex workshop but I think I need a decryption program to help and I saw information on yours all over the web but couldn't find an adequate download link. Please help me out or send me a good link.
    Thanks
     
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    I am not getting a decompressed file. It runs and nothing happens
     
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    Thanks for this fairchild - any chance of posting source code?
     
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    never mind i figured that out.
     

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